Printmaking

Hey Jude

1/10, 8.8" x 22", screenprint on railroad board, 2016

In 2016, as in 1933, the excuse for Otherness is a worsening economy for those left behind. For my friends, left behind, who excuse or overlook acts of Otherness, I understand where you’re coming from. But, for me, Otherness is too dangerous to sit by and let it happen.

And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do

- The Beatles

Two Pipers Under a Tree

1/20, 12" x 16", screenprint on railroad board, 2016

Time rolls over in a daily cycle of light to dark, and, for a time each day, in spring, I’ll see two sandpipers wading the shore of the pond out my back door. If I stay still by the window, I might see them come up to check out what has fallen from the chokecherry by the faux stone patio, the wind ruffling the white feathers on their fat bellies. The window is closed. Opening the window or the back door would scare them away. I wish they would stay.

Seven Times Ten

limited edition (10), reductive woodcut, 15"x16", 2016

In 2016, I turn seventy. Seven times ten. According to Scripture and ancient cultures, seven is the heavenly number, the number that means "many." And ten is the countable number, the one where I don't need to pull off my shoes to count. So, seventy is many, yet still countable. And I will count it as being of some account. Beyond this, I reckon, I must fade into the universal future, an older self that illuminates the past child within.

11:27:27

1/15, 14" x 14", screenprint on railroad board, 2017

We were in the Path of Totality at 5000 feet above sea level, when, at 11:27:27, a dome of dark fell over us like an upended enameled bowl, metallic, like steel in winter. At the rim of the bowl in the far distance shone a bright glow of landscape. The day was over there, here a strange dark with only Venus glaring. I couldn’t stop shouting.

Early Appearance

monoprint, 10" x 8 ", 2015

The spring bird makes his early appearance along the lake behind our home. Soon the hills will green brilliantly, a moment before summer softens them to neutral hues. I will miss the spring bird before he is gone.

Green Mountain Eclipse

1/1, 5" x 5", gel print, 2017

Collage

The Red Umbrella

Collage on paper with pastel and charcoal. 40" x 30". SOLD.

Highway 12

Collaged paper with transferred images. SOLD.

Mr. Sandman Journal, Side One

Collaged birds on sheet music.

Mr. Sandman Journal, Side Two

Collaged birds on sheet music.

L'hotel de Ville, Beaugency

Collaged magazine images onto paper. 11" x 15". 75.00.

The Fowler House

Collaged paper on hardboard. 24" x 50". The Fowler House in the Central Addition, Boise. Donated to Preservation Idaho. SOLD at auction.